Google advances agentic AI custom silicon expanding TPU family with 8tx and 8i Max

Google LLC today introduced two new specialized silicon chips for artificial intelligence to its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit architecture family, aimed at higher compute density and secure inference. At Google Cloud Next 2026 in April, Google introduced two specialized TPUs in the same generation, 8t for large-scale training and 8i designed for real-time reasoning. At the time, … Continue reading Google advances agentic AI custom silicon expanding TPU family with 8tx and 8i Max